Peru

I head off in a couple of days to Peru, back for the second year with a team of students from across Ireland, to work with our Peruvian counterparts - AGEUP . We’ll be working with christian student groups in Lima, helping run an English camp, helping out in some of AGEUP’s long term community [...]

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Separating what should be held in tension and the problems of language

Chelsea appear to be slipping out of the title race, so its time for more of those theological musings.
[oops - classic example of leaving the stadium (or BBC live text commentary) too soon]
I’ve been beginning to think about what the gospel is recently (post to come on that), but my feeling is (especially after church [...]

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Am I a liberal or is your God too small?

Hard to believe its almost a month since I last posted, although I have been keeping up the 365. Part of the lack of posting has been busyness and not actually making time to think, which I have missed, and too much time stuck at a computer. A few days back on the bus, [...]

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365 - pausing to notice

We live in an instant society, life is incredibly busy, we rush from meeting to meeting, from home to work to gym to meet people to catch favourite TV show to bed. We rarely stop. Stop simply to notice, to be aware of the moments of beauty and grace. Stop and pause not to moan [...]

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identity crisis

Who am I?
A couple of things have been going on recently. The first seemingly innocuous. I met up with Vox to start sorting out a pension. As I’m about to hit the third decade (although technically i’m already in it) its time to think wisely about the future. Part of me did think, im getting [...]

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apologies and confessions

Much like whynotsmile I must issue an apology regarding my previous post. The helpful people at my bank have now sorted out my problems. It now seems there were in fact no bandits thieving from my account. Some company has a sort code and account number only one digit different from mine and someone got [...]

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Some bandit is thieving from my bank account

I am officially a victim of fraud. Some light fingered bandit has somehow managed to swipe a significant sum of money from my bank account. I feel naked and vulnerable. And wondering how it happened and how to stop it happening again. For a moment questioning whether ethics or pragmatism should win in choosing bank. [...]

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Halloween - the rise of the witches or just another marketing ploy?

One of my friends commented last night how Halloween is becoming a big deal. Now living in my world of blogs, books and coffee shops I hadn’t noticed much about Halloween other than the sound of fireworks. Maybe if I’d been looking around on the bus to and from work instead having my nose stuck [...]

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Suing the poor - vulture funds and is God a capitalist?

This article - Vultures leave the developing world hungry (a response to ‘How top London law firms help vulture funds devour their prey‘ made me sit bolt upright when reading my Saturday Guardian this morning. My non-economist understanding seems to be that these ‘vulture’ funds buy debt of Heavily Indebted Poor countries (HIPC’s), countries [...]

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a bit late but…

poor old gordon isn’t having the best of times…

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